When: Friday 4 October at 11.00

Where: Anna Politkovskaya press room in Brussels and via Interactio

Key topics next week include:

• Escalating violence in the Middle East and the situation in Lebanon: debate with Josep Borrell;

• Debate on the anniversary of the terrorist attack by Hamas on Israel;

• Debates on the implications of the reintroduction of border controls for the travel-free Schengen area and on the management of Europe’s external borders;

• Debate with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on the programme for Hungary’s six-month Council Presidency;

• Parliament’s priorities for the 17 – 18 October European Council;

• Debates on the crisis in the EU’s automotive industry and on how to ensure affordable and decent housing;

• Georgia: debate and vote on the state of Georgia’s declining democracy, with EU foreign policy chief Borrell;

• Moldova: debate and vote on Russian attempts to interfere in Moldova’s presidential elections, with EU foreign policy chief…